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gh, the official GitHub CLIgh (pronounced… “guh”?) is GitHub’s official command line interface (CLI) tool. It lets you interact with GitHub directly from the command line, supporting most key features across more than 25 commands and over 200 subcommands. It’s also great for bridging the terminal-browser gap, allowing you to jump to pages relevant to your current context, such as the PR for the current branch.
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on: [push, pull_request]I’ve often seen a GitHub Actions workflow defined with a trigger like:
GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM) is GitHub’s variant of Markdown, with extra features like task lists and alert boxes. It’s used in issues, pull requests, comments, and many other places on GitHub.
Most projects I work on use Python, good ol’ Pip, and pip-tools. Below is a pattern I’ve used to speed up the GitHub Actions workflow runs on several such projects. On larger projects with many dependencies, it can save tens of seconds per run.